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: Averkamp, Anton

instrumentation: male choir a cappella ♦ We do not know exactly when Diepenbrock started to set the text, which in those days was attributed to Jacopone da Todi (c. 1230-1306), to music. According to the composer himself (BD III:464), it mus…

instrumentation: mixed choir a cappella ♦ Diepenbrock’s interest in Joost van den Vondel, the greatest Dutch poet from the Golden Era, was kindled at an early age. Both of his parents were members of a society that came together to read plays…

instrumentation: mixed choir a cappella ♦ In January 1896, five years after composing his Stabat mater dolorosa for male choir in ’s-Hertogenbosch (see RC 22), Diepenbrock – who was back in Amsterdam – completed the piece by setting the missi…

instrumentation: mixed choir a cappella ♦ Caelestis urbs Jerusalem for five-part mixed choir a cappella was written for the celebration of the seventieth birthday of the architect P.J.H. (Pierre) Cuypers (1827-1921), the leading figure of the…

instrumentation: mixed choir a cappella ♦ On 16 July 1906 the Rembrandt hall of the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum was opened by His Royal Highness Prince Hendrik. For this festive occasion Diepenbrock composed the Hymne aan Rembrandt (Hymn to Rembran…